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THLETIC  ASSOCIATION 

UNIVERSITY  OF  ILLINOIS 


FOREWORD 


HE  FOLLOWING  are 
extracts  from  news- 
papers and  letters 
relative  to  the  Uni- 
versity of  Illinois 
Coaching  Course 
and  some  of  Illinois  Coaches. 
These  are  submitted  to  persons 
who  may  be  interested  in  a Course 
in  Athletic  Coaching  and  Physical 
Education  that  they  may  under- 
stand how  others  view  us. 

GEORGE  HUFF 

Director,  Department  of  Physical  Education 
University  of  Illinois 

Urbana,  Illinois 


Copyright  1022 
Clarence  L.  Welsh 


THE  DAILY  BULLETIN 


THURSDAY,  JULY  24,  1919 


HE  University  of  Illinois  has  the 
distinction  of  being  the  first  in- 
stitution to  offer  a four- year 
course  in  athletic  coaching  lead- 
ing to  a degree,  and  a large  num- 
ber of  Central  Illinois  boys  are 
considering  entering  the  new  school  in  Sep- 
tember. The  school  opens  Sept.  22. 

Most  coaches,  thus  far,  have  been  educated 
to  be  doctors,  lawyers,  or  engineers,  for  in- 
stance. Coaching  as  a life  work  was  often  a 
stop-gap  or  an  afterthought.  Beyond  their 
own  experience  in  athletics  they  have  been 
self-taught  as  coaches.  But  the  day  of  the 
self-made  coach,  it  is  predicted,  is  passing. 
Few  colleges  or  high  schools  are  willing  to 
allow  their  teams  to  be  practice  material  for 
would-be  coaches,  who  plan  to  pick  up  their 
training  as  they  go  along.  Besides,  it  takes 
too  long.  The  demand  for  trained  coaches  is 
immediate  and  pressing  for  the  war  has  given 
a tremendous  stimulus  to  athletics  and  physi- 
cal education. 

What  will  the  prospective  coach  study? 
Baseball,  football,  basketball,  track,  and  field 
athletics,  swimming,  gymnastics,  hygiene, 
training  and  massage,  anthropometry,  play- 
ground management,  and  the  organization  of 
teams.  There  will  be  classroom  work  and 
training  on  the  field  as  well.  In  addition  to 
these  technical  training  courses  there  will  be 
required  courses  such  as  education,  psychol- 
ogy, rhetoric,  and  public  speaking,  and  the 
student  will  have  general  elective  courses 
from  which  to  choose.  So  he  will  have  a 
pretty  fair  general  education  on  top  of  his 
special  training. 


JERSEY  JOURNAL 


JERSEY  CITY,  N.  J. 


Education  Garries  the  Ball 

HE  WEST  is  nothing  if  not  ag- 
gressive and  revolutionary.  The 
descendants  of  the  pioneers  who 
pushed  into  the  prairie  country 
and  made  it  what  it  is  today  are 
still  imbued  with  the  pioneering 
spirit,  and  this  spirit  had  entered  into  that 
most  dignified  and  staid  realm,  the  university, 
where  it  plays  today  a conspicuous  role.  Y et 
it  is  not  without  a measure  of  surprise  that 
one  reads  that  the  University  of  Illinois  is 
giving  a four- year  course  in  athletic  coaching. 

And  yet,  why  not?  The  call  for  men  and 
women  who  understand  the  training  of  the 
human  body,  who  can  coach  it  so  as  to  bring 
out  its  physical  perfections,  who  know  human 
psychology,  so  that  they  can  build  up  school 
spirit  and  term  spirit — that  form  of  idealism 
that  sacrifices  personal  glory  for  the  ultimate 
good  of  an  entire  team — is  far  greater  than  the 
supply.  He  who  is  trained  to  do  these  things 
with  expert  skill  has  made  a contribution  to 
life.  He  has  helped  those  younger  than  him- 
self to  prepare,  in  a physical  and  moral  sense, 
for  the  battle  of  life.  The  youth  who  has  had 
it  pounded  into  him  until  it  becomes  a creed, 
that  he  must  play  his  games  fair,  is  not  apt  to 
soil  his  hands  by  later  contact  with  a wider 
world  than  that  of  the  college  campus.  The 
seeds  of  idealism  live  long  years. 

At  first,  the  Illinois  coaching  school  was 
opened  as  a summer  course.  Soon  it  became 
apparent  that  the  value  of  a college  education 
to  a coach  was  of  inestimable  worth.  As  in 
every  other  walk  of  life,  it  is  the  trained  matter 
below  the  scalp  that  counts.  Athletics  showed 


JERSEY  JOURNAL 


Continued 


the  same  willingness  and  eagerness  to  absorb 
its  leaders  of  higher  education  that  the  busi- 
ness showed.  During  1919  athletic  coaching 
was  made  a four-year  course.  The  result 
will  be  more  abundantly  equipped  men  hold- 
ing athletic  control.  Athletics  must  neces- 
sarily benefit  because  of  this  contact. 

George  A.  Huff,  is  director  of  the  course  in 
athletic  coaching  at  the  Illinois  University. 
Who  is  Huff?  Huff  is  a college  man  himself. 
He  began  his  career  at  the  University  of  Ill- 
inois in  1889.  He  made  the  football  and  the 
baseball  teams.  Later,  he  attended  Dart- 
mouth Medical  College  and  played  football 
and  baseball  there.  In  1895  he  came  to  Illi- 
nois as  coach  of  the  football  and  baseball 
teams.  Jake  Stahl,  leader  of  the  Boston 
Americans  when  they  won  a World’s  Cham- 
pionship, learned  baseball  from  him.  Other 
players  he  developed  are  Carl  Lundgren,  for 
eight  years  with  the  Cubs;  Pitcher  Fred 
Falkenberg,  Ray  Demmitt,  late  of  the  Yan- 
kees, and  Jack  Bradley.  During  the  sum- 
mer months  he  acted  as  a big  league  base- 
ball scout  and  he  unearthed  such  stars  as 
Tris  Speaker,  Ed.  Ruelbach,  King  Cole  and 
Hans  Lobert. 

By  all  means  let  us  have  athletic  coaches 
who  are  college  trained.  The  more  college 
learning,  college  tradition,  college  ideals  that 
filter  through  the  trades  and  professions,  the 
better.  It  is  inevitable  that  this  class  of 
training  must  tell,  and  it  is  fitting  that  it 
should  be  evident  in  so  wide  a range  as  is 
covered  by  the  athletic  amusements  of  a 
great  people. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  LETTERS 
TO  DIRECTOR  HUFF  REGARDING 
THE  COACHING  SCHOOL 


Wm.  J.  Rennie,  Waukegan,  Illinois.  April  27,  1920. 


1 WAS  my  privilege  to  attend  your 
Summer  School  Course  for 
Coaches  during  the  summer  of 
1919.  Any  success  I have  had 
here  I attribute  to  the  knowledge 
of  fundamentals  which  was  ob- 
tained from  the  courses  which  I took  in  your 
school. 

“The  courses  have  proven  to  be  of  inesti- 
mable value  to  me  in  all  phases  of  my  ath- 
letic work. 

“Enclosed  please  find  a newspaper  account 
of  my  football  season  this  year.  You  will 
notice  that  we  won  8 out  of  9 games.  During 
my  past  two  seasons  in  basketball  we  have 
won  34  and  lost  9 games.’  ’ 


Wiley  R.  Wright,  Duval  High  School,  Jacksonville,  Florida,  Nov.  9, 1921 

“I  was  there  part  of  the  summer  for  the 
Coaching  Course  and  feel  that  I owe  my 
success  so  far  to  the  University.  It  was 
through  Illinois  that  this  place  was  opened  to 
me  and  I have  worked  mighty  hard  to  turn  out 
a winning  team.  We  have  played  five  games 
and  have  won  them  all.  ’ ’ 


S.  A.  Tenison,  Director  of  Athletics,  State  Normal  School, 

Stevens  Point,  Wisconsin.  February  18,  1920. 

“I  think  your  Summer  Course  for  Coaches 
ranks  on  its  merits  as  the  best  in  the  country. 

“While  here  at  the  State  Normal  School,  I 
have  had  good  success  in  football,  track  and 
especially  basketball.” 


EXTRACTS  FROM  LETTERS 
TO  DIRECTOR  HUFF  REGARDING 
THE  COACHING  SCHOOL 


Tom  Johnson,  Marinette  High  School,  Marinette,  Wisconsin,  Decem- 
ber 21,  1921. 

N REGARD  to  the  Coaching 
School,  the  most  important 
things  that  I gathered  were  the 
fundamentals  of  every  game,  es- 
pecially football.  I am  a firm 
believer  in  teaching  good  funda- 
mental football  before  any  other  thing.  I 
found  out  to  my  own  satisfaction  as  a coach 
that  a team  well  drilled  in  fundamentals 
will  win  out  in  the  long  run.  Fundamental 
football  is  one  thing  that  Zup  stressed  all 
during  the  six  weeks’  course.  I have  heard 
numerous  remarks  about  the  University  of 
Illinois  Coaching  School,  especially  the  Sum- 
mer Course. 

R.  N.  Fargo,  Physical  Director,  Joliet  Twp.  High  School,  Joliet,  111., 
Dec.  15, 1921. 

“The  Summer  Course  which  I attended  at 
the  University  has  been  a lot  of  help  in  my 
work  this  year.  After  the  year’s  experience 
handling  coaching,  I feel  that  another  Sum- 
mer at  Illinois  would  be  even  more  valuable 
than  the  last.” 

Geo.  E.  Cooper,  Director  of  Athletics,  Tempe  Normal  School  of  Arizona 
Tempe,  Arizona,  June  21,  1920. 

“Thanks  to  your  pointers  furnished  me  last 
year  (attended  1919  Summer  School),  I was 
able  to  turn  out  my  Second  State  Champion- 
ship Baseball  Team  in  the  three  years  that  I 
have  been  here.  We  have  been  credited  with 
one  Championship  in  Basketball.” 


ILLINI  AND  HARVARD  HOLD 
HONORS  OF  STIRRING  GRID  YEAR 


ZUPPKE  ELEVEN  DESERVES  TITLE  AMONG  BIG  TEN 


November  Zi, 


T MOST  successful  football  year  since  the  adoption  of  the  for- 


ward pass  and  ten  yard  line  rule  thirteen  years  ago  came  to  a 


successful  close  Saturday,  when  Illinois  won  the  western 
conference  championship  by  defeatin&Ohio  State,  9 to  7,  and  Harvard 
triumphed  over  Yale  by  a score  of  10  to  3. 

In  winning  from  Ohio  State,  Illinois  deserves  all  the  credit 
which  possibly  can  be  bestowed  on  the  coaches  and  players.  It 
developed  into  a team  of  remarkable  strength  in  less  than  a month’s 
time.  Although  beaten  by  Wisconsin  in  the  middle  of  the  year, 
it  showed  the  proper  football  stuff  by  going  into  succeeding  battles 
with  renewed  fight,  which  resulted  in  winning  the  title. 


Crippled,  But  Still  in  Game. 


Illinois  is  one  of  the  gamest  elevens  which  has  appeared  on  a 
western  gridiron  in  years.  Some  of  the  players  were  hurt  in  the 
early  part  of  the  year ; yet  few  of  them  were  laid  off  long  enough  to 
recover  entirely.  They  were  sent  into  games  when  ’they  should 
have  been  in  the  stands.  They  did  not  complain  or  protest.  They 
simply  did  what  they  were  told,  no  matter  how  painful,  and  this 
accounts  for  the  chaTnpionship. 

Like  the  team  of  the  last  two  years,  Illinois  was  improving  as 
the  season  grew  oldej,  while  Ohio  did  not  show  a marked  advance- 
ment since  its  game  with  Michigan  in  mid-season.  Coach  Zuppke’ 
knew  the  Buckeye  attack  and  he  knew  how  to  stop  Harley.  That  he 
accomplished  his  purpose  was  shown  all  through  the  champion- 
ship battle.  It  was  a great  victory  for  the  Orange  and  Blue  eleven, 
but  a bitter  disappointment  to  the  Scarlet  and  Gray. 


CHICAGO  TRIBUNE 


July  14th  1920 


CHAMPION  COACH  QUITS  MICHIGAN 
FOR  ILLINOIS  NINE 

ARL  LUNDGREN  is  coming  back 
to  Illinois  to  coach  the  Baseball 
team  which  he  helped  to  pitch 
to  its  first  championship  just 
twenty  years  ago.  Since  1914 
Lundy  has  successfully  coached 
the  University  of  Michigan  nine  and  his  rela- 
tions with  the  Wolverines  have  been  of  the 
pleasantest,  but  his  Alma  Mater  needed  him. 
George  Huff, after  twenty-four  years  of  coach- 
ing in  which  he  has  won  eleven  championships 
and  tied  for  another,  had  retired  as  baseball 
coach. 

Lundgren’s  name  is  permanently  linked 
with  Illinois’  first  successes  on  the  diamond. 
He  was  a pitcher  on  the  Illini  teams  of  1899, 
1900,  1901  and  1902.  The  teams  of  1900  and 
1902  were  Western  Champions,  and  Lundy’s 
pitching  was  a big  factor. 

Leads  Illini  Thru  East 

In  1902  as  captain  Lundgren  led  the  famous 
Illini  nine  that  invaded  the  east  after  cleaning 
up  the  west,  on  that  jaunt,  immortalized  by 
John  McCutcheon  in  a front  page  cartoon, 
Illinois  conquered  Princeton,  West  Point, 
Pennsylvania,  and  Yale,  losing  only  to  Harvard 
by  a 2 to  1 score.  Lundgren  pitched  all  these 
except  the  West  Point  game.  At  Harvard  the 
critics  conceded  that  he  outpitched  Walter 
Clarkson  who  twirled  for  the  crimson,  but  a 
patched  up  infield,  the  result  of  an  accident  in 
preliminary  practice,  cost  him  the  victory. 

Mr.  Lundgren  was  full  back  on  the  Illinois 
Football  team  in  addition  to  his  Baseball  work. 
As  Baseball  Coach,  he  will  also  teach  this 
subject  in  the  four  year  Athletic  Coaching 
Course  which  Director  Huff  established  last 
year. 


FIGHTING  ILLINI  WRECK  OHIO’S 
TITLE  HOPES,  7 TO  0 


BUCKEYE  ROOTERS  STUNNED 
BY  TEAM’S  DEFEAT. 
November  20, 1921  Wo°dn,fl 


raEKT^IUPPKE’S  fighting  Illini  beat  Ohio 

State!  Zuppke’s  iighting  Illini 
beat  Ohio  State! 

Zuppke’s  lighting  Illini  beat 
Ohio  State! 

The  score  was  7 to  0,  gathered  by 
a successful  forward  pass  from  Peden  to 
Capt.  Walquist  near  the  end  of  the  first  half. 

If  ever  a football  team  deserved  its  nick- 
name stressed  and  reiterated  as  a real  courage 
bringer  during  a disastrous  season,  it  was 
those  young  men  from  Urbana  who  fully 
earned  their  adjective  on  Ohio  field  this  after- 
noon, retrieved  their  fallen  prestige  and 
smeared  over  the  muddy  gridiron  all  Buckeye 
claims  to  another  Big  Ten  title. 

Zuppkes  Find  Themselves. 

Illinois,  which  has  not  previously  this  sea- 
son recorded  a touchdown  against  a confer- 
ence opponent  found  itself.  In  the  greatest 
upset  of  the  season,  it  downed  the  hitherto 
supermen  of  Ohio  State  who  had  not  been 
scored  against  by  Michigan,  Minnesota,  Chi- 
cago or  Purdue. 

As  the  game  ended  just  after  Walquist 
had  speared  on  his  own  37  yard  line  one  of 
those  long  forward  passes  by  which  Ohio  in 
previous  years  has  come  from  behind  to  tie  or 
win,  several  hundred  joy-mad  rooters  snake- 
danced  over  the  slippery  gridiron  while  20,000 


stunned  and  silent  Buckeye  homecoming 
alumni  and  under-graduates  silently  wended 
their  way  toward  the  gates. 

Victory  Well  Deserved. 

Was  Illinois  entitled  to  its  victory?  Yes.  It 
earned  it,  in  fact  the  score  might  have  been 
14  to  0. 

Early  in  the  third  quarter  little  Stemaman 
received  a punt  from  Workman  deep  in  Illinois 
territory.  He  started  to  run,  how  he  ran!  First 
toward  Ohio’s  left  side  and  then  back  across 
the  field.  He  shifted  and  twisted  with  Illinois 
forming  for  interference  at  about  Ohio’s  30- 
yard  line  Wilson  took  off  Ohio’s  final  safety 
man  and  little  Joe  sped  on  for  what  seemed  a 
touchdown.  The  officials  ruled,  however,  that 
Wilson  had  used  his  hands  in  upsetting  Cott, 
and  called  the  ball  back,  giving  it  to  Illinois  on 
Ohio’s  46  yard  line. 

Nullifying  the  touchdown  the  Illini  rooters 
were  already  cheering. 

Not  an  Illinois  Substitution. 

Another  thing,  no  doubt,  that  contributed  to 
success  was  the  fact  that  Zuppke’s  men  went 
through  the  game  without  a single  substitu- 
tion, just  as  Zuppke  told  the  writer  Friday 
afternoon  that  he  would  attempt  to  do.  Time 
was  taken  out  and  once  Illinois  was  penalized 
for  delay,  but  the  regulars  stuck  to  the  finish. 


CHICAGO  TRIBUNE 


Walter  Eckersall 


JUNE  5,  1921 

ILLINOIS  TAKES 

RECORD-SMASHING 

MEET 

HIGH  JUMP  AND  JAVELIN  MARKS 
FALL;  DASH  TIED 

Featured  by  the  smashing  of  two  rec- 
ords and  the  tying  of  another,  Coach  Harry 
Gill’s  well  balanced  Illinois  team  which  scor- 
ed points  in  fourteen  of  the  sixteen  events 
yesterday  won  the  twenty-first  annual  track 
and  field  games  of  the  western  intercolleg- 
iate conference  on  Stagg  field,  Illinois  amass- 
ed a total  of  61  points. 

PROFESSOR  CRAGWALL 
EX-WABASH  COLLEGE 

There  is  an  institution  in  the  middle  west 
that  every  college  in  the  country  feels  it  an 
honor  to  combat.  I have  never  heard  a man 
on  any  athletic  team  that  ever  competed 
against  this  Institution  say  anything  but 
words  of  highest  praise  for  Illinois.  And  the 
reason  for  this  is,  that  any  team  representing 
any  branch  of  athletics,  if  it  goes  to  Cham- 
paign, will  know  that  it  is  going  to  receive 
the  most  courteous  treatment.  The  Univer- 
sity of  Illinois  never  forgets  that  the  opposing 
team  is  the  guest  in  her  house  and  that  she 
is  going  to  treat  them  with  all  courtesy.  It  was 
a revelation  to  me  the  first  time  I went  onto 
Illinois  Field  and  saw  the  treatment  which 
was  accorded  the  visiting  team  by  the  Illinois 
supporters.  On  that  occasion  Wabash  was 
the  visiting  team  and  before  any  of  the  Wa- 
bash men  could  cheer  the  Little  Giants,  Illi- 
nois was  shouting  for  them. 


BUffALO  EXPRESS 


SPORTS 


Illinois,  Yale,  Syracuse 
Title  Relay  Winners 

WEST  SENT  THE  STARS  TO 
BIG  ATHLETIC  MEET 


Illinois’  Race  Strong  Effort  of  Great  Day 


Philadelphia,  April  30.— Remarkable  athletic  performances 
by  Western  athletes  were  the  outstanding  feature  of  the  filial 
day  of  the  27th  annual  relay  carnival  of  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania staged  on  Franklin  Field  here  this  afternoon. 

Of  the  more  important  college  championship  races  Illinois 
captured  the  four-mile  event,  after  a steady  pace  which  caused 
both  Cornell  and  Princeton  runners  to  falter  under  the  strain. 

The  University  of  Illinois  milers  were  always  the  leaders  in 
the  four-mile  college  championship  race.  Before  the  first  mile 
had  been  finished,  Illinois,  Cornell  university  and  Princeton 
were  distancing  the  field,  consisting  of  Pennsylvania  State, 
Syracuse  and  Lafayette.  At  the  second  mile  post  Illinois  led 
Princeton  by  fifteen  yards,  with  Cornell  twenty  yards  back  of 
the  Tiger  runner.  In  the  third  mile  Cornell  took  second  place 
from  Princeton  and  in  the  final  two  laps  of  the  race  made  a 
game  attempt  to  overhaul  Wharton,  who  was  anchor  man  for 
the  Westerners. 

The  latter  had  plenty  of  reserve,  however,  and  won  by  fifteen 
yards,  with  Princeton  third,  100  yards  back  of  the  Ithacans,  and 
Pennsylvania  State  well  distanced.  Syracuse  and  Lafayette  did 
not  finish. 


BLOOMINGTON  BULLETIN 


Fred.  H.  Young 


ORANGE  AND  BLUE  TOSSERS 
OUTPLAYED  VETERAN  CHICAGO 
TEAM  LAST  NIGHT 


Frank  Winters  Hailed  as  the  Miracle  Man  of  Illinois 
Camp  as  result  of  Wonderful  Work  Accomplished 
with  Mediocre  Material — Illinois  Played  Magnificent 
Basketball  Throughout  and  Deserved  Victory 


(BY  FRED  H.  YOUNG) 

RBANA,  111.,  Jan.19, ’21.— They’re 
singing  the  praises  of  a new  mir- 
acle worker  on  the  Illinois  cam- 
pus today.  It’s  not“G”  Huff 
B.  Zuppke,  or  Harry  Gill.  It’s 
Frank  Winters,  the  little  basket- 
ball coach  from  Rockford  who  came  to  Illinois 
last  fall  almost  unheralded  and  developed  a 
five  strong  enough  to  lick  Chicago,  Illinois’ 
traditional  foe,  last  night  in  the  most  spec- 
tacular contest  waged  on  the  old  Gym  Annex 
floor  since  the  days  of  the  Woods  twins. 

The  value  of  a clever,  brainy  basketball 
coach  to  a college  team  was  never  more  clearly 
demonstrated  than  last  night,  for  Winter’s 
proteges,  who  has  been  working  quietly  under 
cover  for  over  a month,  came  into  their  own 
yesterday,  fought  their  very  “heads”  off  for 
him,  and  gave  a grand  account  of  themselves 
at  every  stage. 

The  game  will  go  down  into  the  record  books 
as  a victory  for  Illinois,  but  to  my  mind  it  was 
a personal  triumph  for  Frank  Winters,  one  of 
the  finest  characters  in  all  of  Western  ath- 
letics. 


IOWA  STATE  STUDENT 


“U.  of  Iowa  Daily” 


NOVEMBER,  1921 

HE  following  article  has  been 
requested  by  several  business 
men  and  others,  to  be  put  in 
the  Student  with  a few  appro- 
priate remarks. 

True  school  spirit,  of  the  kind 
to  be  desired  in  every  school,  was  recently  ex- 
emplified by  President  David  Kinley  of  the 
University  of  Illinois  in  a note  of  appreciation 
to  the  Illinois  football  squad,  a team  which 
won  but  a single  conference  game. 

It  reads: 

“Some  people  think  that  football  is  not 
quite  within  the  scope  of  the  thought  of  the 
president  of  the  university,”  Dr.  Kinley  wrote 
the  gridiron  men.  “However,  I do  not  think 
so.  I am  interested  in  all  things  that  the 
students  and  faculty  are  interested  in,  al- 
though I cannot  find  time  or  strength  to 
express  that  interest  on  every  occasion. 

“Of  course,  things  in  life  are  of  different  de- 
grees of  importance,  but  all  together  go  to 
make  up  life ; so  in  the  university. 

“Nevertheless,  I am  sure  that  most  people 
will  agree  with  me  in  thinking  that  the  qualities 
of  character  which  you  all  have  shown  this  fall 
in  your  football  contests  deserve  the  highest 
praise.  I am  greatly  delighted  with  the  result  of 
the  season  because  of  the  fine  spirit  you  have 
shown — that  spirit  of  unconquerable  determi- 
nation which  led  you  to  do  your  best  under 
trying  circumstances  and  finally  to  win  a 
spectacular  and  brilliant  victory  in  the  last 
contest  of  the  season.  The  spirit  you  have 
shown  is  the  spirit  that  wins  success  and 
serves  the  world.  I congratulate  you  on  pos- 
sessing it. 


IOWA  STATE  STUDENT 


Continued 


“I  take  the  opportunity  to  extend  my  con- 
gratulations to  Capt.  Walquist  by  closing  his 
fine  football  career  so  brilliantly.” 

This  note  represents,  not  only  the  spirit  of 
the  president,  but  of  the  entire  student  body 
and  the  alumni.  The  spirit  pictured  there  is 
one  which  sent  the  Fighting  Illini,  tail-enders 
of  the  conference,  into  the  Buckeye  camp  to 
return  winner  over  supposedly  the  best  team 
in  the  Big  Ten.  The  Illinois  rooter,  who  sat 
alone  among  a thron&  of  Iowa  fans,  and  rose  to 
sing  a solo  when  the  band  played  his  Alma 
Mater,  is  an  example  of  the  same  spirit. 

The  slump  of  spirit  from  which  Iowa  State 
emerged  during  the  past  gridiron  season  is  to 
be  commended,  but  is  it  not  plain  that  we  do 
not  come  within  several  paces  of  the  mark 
set  by  Illinois?  The  Illini  have  demonstrated 
that  it  is  not  the  shouting  crowd  which  really 
supports  the  team,  it  is  the  crowd  which 
fights  for  the  team  as  fiercely  out  of  the 
grandstand  as  it  does  within.  To  stick  to  the 
team,  win  or  lose,  is  to  support  the  school ; to 
shout  when  the  team  wins  and  curse  when 
it  loses  is  to  help  the  school  along  to  ill  repute. 


